As Marin Alsop leaves the Baltimore Symphony after 14 years, the field is taking a step backward: 25 major American orchestras, no female music directors.
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New Bedford Symphony Orchestra to perform at National Orchestra Conference
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NEW BEDFORD The New Bedford Symphony Orchestra has been selected to perform a virtual concert at the League of American Orchestra’s national conference, which is also being held virtually, in June. NBSO President and CEO Dave Prentiss congratulated Music Director Yaniv Dinur and the NBSO musicians for being chosen to perform at the League conference. “We are very proud of this accomplishment. A national audience will now be able to enjoy the outstanding artistry of our orchestra.”
The program features music by four women of color who are among the leading composers of our time: Jesse Montgomery, Rena Esmail, Keiko Abe, and Gabriella Lena Frank. Their pieces grapple with questions of self-identity and draw inspiration from the folk music of their traditions - African, Indian, Japanese, and Latin American. The guest soloist is award-wining marimbist Eriko Daimo. Concert details may be foun
Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers
The New York Times’s Culture editor has questions. Our chief classical music critic has answers.
San Francisco Symphony performing a Stravinsky program at Carnegie Hall in 2018.Credit.Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times relies on critics, reporters and editors in every field of the arts for their expertise. Now we’re bringing his personal questions and our writers’ answers to you. Currently on his mind: his constant struggle with how to learn more about everything that Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic, writes about.
Gilbert asks: I’m very open when it comes to my lack of knowledge about classical music and opera. And through conversations over the years, you’ve been gracious enough to try to explain to me that I shouldn’t feel overwhelmed by this. I’m also a fan of working through groups of works all of a pop artist’s albums, all the movies from a particular directo